Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has held that courts are not expected to sit in appeal over administrative or technical decisions of statutory authorities taken in bona fide exercise of their powers.

The Court can act only when such actions are ex facie arbitrary, perverse, or contrary to law, it said.

The remark was made in a case filed by one Noor Mohammad Dar of Hyderpora, Airport Road against the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) who allowed one Mohammad Farooq Sarfi, to raise a construction in the area with some minor breach of building permission rules.

Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal while dismissing the case of Noor Mohammad said "the writ petition, on a plain reading, appears to be an attempt ...